Top 100 Quotes About Worthwhile
#1. I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.
Tyrone Power
#2. What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.
Vivek Wadhwa
#3. Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne?
L.M. Montgomery
#4. Contemplating from the confines of a desk the reality of death is worthwhile, but only moderately enriching. Too often do I resort to it; rarely do I get with death in the ring.
Richard Ronald Allan
#5. Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.
John Wooden
#6. Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.
Mia Asher
#7. Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.
Hugh MacLeod
#8. After all, Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier who had killed and whored and made a thorough mess of his soul, said you could judge prayer worthwhile simply if you could act more decently, think more clearly afterward. As D.W. once told him, "Son, sometimes it's enough just to act less like a shithead.
Mary Doria Russell
#9. He was such a throwaway thing of no importance, and yet he existed and would make that existence worthwhile.
Glyn Iliffe
#10. I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
Edmund Hillary
#11. Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
P. J. O'Rourke
#12. It's about what you've got to put yourself through to make anything worthwhile. It's about going to the dark places and using what you find there.
Kevin Barry
#13. Do they listen?"
He held up a finger. "Every year one does," he said, ginning, "But that one makes it worthwhile. Even Jesus only did twelve. I try to get one a year.
Abraham Verghese
#14. The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.
Jackie Kennedy
#15. I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live ... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.
Robert A. Ward
#16. Why be alone when we can be together baby
You can make my life worthwhile
And I can make you start to smile
Mr. Big
#17. Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred Grenfell
#18. We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.
Sherry Thomas
#19. If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business - I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!
Isabel Sanford
#20. The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.
Julia Child
#22. Life is a suffering. We suffer because we exist. So enjoy the sufferings with love to make life worthwhile to suffer for.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Vectors never make the same mistake twice,That is why the warrior only risks his heart for something worthwhile.
Paulo Coelho
#25. Investing in renter's insurance is hugely worthwhile. It protects you from a whole load of financial pitfalls around your home. Your home should be the center of your sense of security - not the cause of you losing financial security.
Alexa Von Tobel
#26. To do something well is so worthwhile, that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy
Bruce McLaren
#27. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.
Alan Kulwicki
#28. It takes use to make knowledge worthwhile.
J.S. Morin
#29. I will make THIS worthwhile. I will make THIS enough until we can tackle more. THIS matters, whatever it is, and for now THIS is everything, okay?
Jay Crownover
#30. During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head ... you know it was worthwhile.
Nina Kuscsik
#31. Each small kindness given or received is evidence that life is worthwhile.
Donald Altman
#32. Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.
Samuel Eliot Morison
#34. I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.
Annabelle Selldorf
#35. Just because you don't want to see something doesn't mean that it will go away. Do you think inhumanity doesn't exist if you pretend not to see it? Or maybe get too drunk to understand? We've forgotten the things that make life worthwhile.
Bethany Griffin
#36. We all die, sweetheart. You've just got to live your life with enough meaning while you're still here to make it all worthwhile.
Steph Campbell
#37. Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words themselves to convey his meaning, without resorting to yelling.
Richard Dawkins
#38. Okay, so maybe chocolate doesn't make the world go around, but it sure makes the trip worthwhile.
Jill Shalvis
#39. Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#40. God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless.
Billy Graham
#41. A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by the bugs and the flies.
Charles Bukowski
#42. I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.
Hunter S. Thompson
#43. Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.
Grenville Kleiser
#44. Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations.
Shashi Tharoor
#45. I wrote about the rush of love, the changing of a woman into a mother - a process that happened without conscious thought, as if the heart knew what the mind and body took time to learn. Love is the one thing that matters. That makes everything else matter. That makes everything worthwhile.
Lisa Wingate
#46. I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.
John F. Kennedy
#47. Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.
Erica Jong
#48. The harder a place is to reach, the more likely reaching it will be worthwhile.
Isaac Marion
#49. As the Siberian saying goes: One hundred versts (roughly a hundred miles) is no distance. A hundred rubles isn't worthwhile money. And a hundred grams of vodka just makes you thirsty.
Farley Mowat
#50. My mother worked for the social services all her life. She always said that in the middle of all the crap, in the thick of it all, you always had a sunny story turning up. Which makes it all worthwhile.' The next words that come are smiling. 'You're my sunny story, Britt-Marie.
Fredrik Backman
#51. I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it.
I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world.
I refuse to let anything get in my way.
Randy Ingermanson
#52. Certain aspects of their job made grim look like sunshine. The only thing that made it worthwhile was incarcerating bad guys so they didn't hurt anyone again.
Toni Anderson
#53. When God hears us worshipping Him, that alone makes Him feel worthwhile to be God!
Raphael Ben Levi
#54. All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.
Bear Grylls
#55. Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.
Nicholas Lemann
#56. I will not support any game that doesn't express what I think is worthwhile.
Warren Spector
#57. Unless you lock me in here, you can't expect me to barricade myself in your room when your gone all the time."
Cameron smiled ruefully.
"Why not? You could sit here counting the minutes til I came home after a hard day's work and made your wait worthwhile
Julie Hockley
#58. our youth must be shown that not all worthwhile things are instantly accessible and that there are levels of sensibility unknown to them.
Neil Postman
#59. Make sure this is the path you want to walk because once you start, you have to be committed to the process. The progression will be exhausting, discouraging and daunting. It will get you down, but the end point, which may be years down the line, will make it worthwhile. - Will Granger
Jess Dee
#60. I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.
Mark Twain
#61. I know that this time, the worst thing I can do is let go. And I won't be losing anything. Because it's the most selfish thing I could ever do - to allow myself to fall for someone worthwhile.
Kirsten Hubbard
#62. A woman needs to be told she is beautiful. She needs to be told she is valued. She needs to be told she is worthwhile.
Thomas S. Monson
#63. What a man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
Viktor E. Frankl
#64. All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something ...
Bernard Malamud
#66. We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Albert Einstein
#67. I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.
Bob Odenkirk
#68. A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.
Ana Castillo
#69. The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
Fred Rogers
#70. Life is not always an easy road; but it is "ALWAYS" a worthwhile journey!
Trish Barron
#71. The colonizing mind invites itself wherever it wishes to intrude; it is a worthwhile practice for the coming millennium to train ourselves away from such a mind.
Alice Walker
#72. It's harder to reveal sides of yourself that make you vulnerable but it's another muscle that can be developed and one that I think is worthwhile. That said, everyone finds their style. It's personal.
Ted Alexandro
#73. All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.
John H. Johnson
#74. There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?
Dana Spiotta
#75. The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.
Imre Kertesz
#76. Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny) ... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.
Leonard Maltin
#77. Generally speaking, the deader the author, the more worthwhile the work.
William T. Vollmann
#78. Love gets straight to the heart of what's worthwhile in life.
M.K. Meredith
#79. That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.
E.C. Bentley
#80. I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time ... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.
Alton Brown
#81. I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.
Albert Einstein
#82. What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
Donald Fagen
#83. It is a challenge to love someone who does not see the divine as you do, and much harder still to date someone who considers your spirituality a design flaw in an otherwise worthwhile human being.
Thomm Quackenbush
#84. If you regret the mistakes you've made and don't wish to repeat them, then your whole life has been worthwhile.
E.R. Mason
#85. Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.
David Blunkett
#86. Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.
Edna Buchanan
#87. You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.
Alphonsus Liguori
#88. There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Alfred P. Sloan
#89. Just work on your craft hard - that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.
David O. Russell
#90. Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books
Meles Zenawi
#91. Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.
Susanna Kearsley
#92. What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
J.I. Packer
#93. The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.
James Salter
#94. What can I now do to use my misfortunes constructively, to turn my suffering to advantage by finding something worthwhile to do that I could not have done so well if these tragedies had not occurred?
James C. Crumbaugh
#95. KERRYANNE: Paul didn't think it was worthwhile.
KYLE: Paul's a jackass. Well he's not in your life anymore so you're free to do whatever the heck you want ain't you?
Jordan Silver
#96. It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
Mark Strand
#98. Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
Agnes Repplier
#99. Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?
Lord Mountbatten
#100. All the problems and challenges make life interesting. It makes the living worthwhile. If everything follows a straight order, we lose our interest out of life.
Roshan Sharma
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